WE'RE VOTING FOR PRESIDENT - NOT A KING OR EMPEROR!

Over the last several weeks people have become passionate about the Presidential Election, and in particular, the REPUBLICANS I associate with have become radical.  Oh the KNOW IT ALLS that I know!  (It's good to be passionate though!)

I'm convinced that TRUMP VOTERS are actually HYSTERICS who belong to a CULT.

One of my friends has a woman friend who WATCHES FOX ALL DAY AND NIGHT.  She has been leaving up to three crazy messages an hour about what will happen to us if a DEMOCRAT (KAMALA HARRIS) is elected, predicting CIVIL WAR and WORLD WIDE DOOM. 

I told him BLOCK HER NUMBER!

The DEBATE was so about candidates accusing each other of doing and not doing.

HERE'S A FACT:  Yes, the President of the United States, the best country in the world - and it could be argued the most influential in the world - has POWER.  But it IS NOT UNCHECKED POWER.  (And VICE PRESIDENTS have much less power than Presidents.  We barely hear about them in the media unless they run for the Presidency themselves, so anyone blaming VP Harris for things that went through legislation apparently doesn't know how it all works and should not be running for high office.)

When a candidate talks what they are FOR or NOT FOR, this is a position, a world view, a philosophy of life, an IDEALISM. It does not mean whatever they say they WILL DO will GET DONE!

WE ARE NOT ELECTION A KING OR AN EMPEROR!

A President of the United States DOES NOT (and SHOULD NOT) get to do WHATEVER THEY WANT to us.  No, there's the SENATE and the CONGRESS providing input and otherwise approving or disapproving notions and WE THE PEOPLE GET TO ELECT SENATORS and CONGRESSPEOPLE TOO!

I think most people VOTE FOR THEIR JOBS.

I think we cannot let just ONE ISSUE sway our entire vote.

CONSPIRACY THEORIES!

A DEEP MISTRUST.  (ANXIETY)

AN INABILITY TO MAKE A DECISION WITHOUT PLENTY OF RESEARCH.

AND THEN SOME.

I wish us all luck! 

C 2024  Christine Trzyna

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS LEAVES NO ROOM FOR BEING IN THE MIDDLE and BERNIE SANDERS

Political correctness.

It seems to me it's used as a form of censorship.  It should be politically correct to be able to air your opinions without fear of censor.  

I'm generally thought of as open minded and liberal - progressive.  I think that is true of me. Even I, however, meet people who are soooo politically correct - usually to the extreme left but sometimes to the extreme right - that I feel myself on unexpectedly shaky middle ground. 

I sit in silence. I don't want to get into an argument.

I have NOT become a person who becomes more conservative with age.  Rather I have found that certain things I might have explored at some time in the past are not for me and were never for me (but maybe if I hadn't explored I might not know that.)  Maybe with age we just become our truer selves.

I've felt that if you have to error, error on the liberal side.  As a basis for my philosophy of live and let live, I'm strongly for choice. There are many things other people do that I still would never. Some liberals confuse my feeling that other people should be allowed to live as they choose with things about me that are not true, but I live with it.

Among the people who have surprised and confused me in recent months...

A woman who has gone radical against abortion, though she herself has had two.  Living a childless life she was able to focus on her career, avoid staying married to Mr. Wrong to raise children, and has money from all those long hard hours she worked childless, enough for world travel. The same person criticized a friend of mine for being married 15 years and not having a child with her husband.  (Now that she's a part of a Bible -based fundamentalist church where the minister urges everyone to Republicanism, I didn't ask, but wonder why she doesn't want other women to have the same choice she did to be married for the third time and childless.)

A minister at a progressive" church whose serman took her personal veganism into a "We All Know" and "Save the Earth" dimension.  I felt like eating a steak raw and dripping with blood after sitting still for this, though I usually only eat steak a couple times a year well done hearing this and later joked that I would be part of the Carnivore Choir.  For a long time now I have felt that most people I encounter with vegan politically beliefs - though they tie this in with the resources used to grow meat and animal welfare - do not understanding that some people here in the United States would be dead if it were not for hot dogs and five for a dollar Asian noodle soup packages.  They say it's inexpensive to be Vegan but all those special products that are bought to ensure enough nutrition are expensive.  I once had Vegan friends who traveled with a suitcase full of herbs and supplements. Some of the products are just as processed as not organic foods, just as full of useless calories and fat and sugar.

I'm firmly convinced I'm bodily a mammal and carnivore, a product of evolution and thousands of years of eating meat, I have the teeth and intestines for it and if you're reading this, I bet that's true of you too.

So what does this have to do with Bernie Sanders?

Well, I DO NOT EXPECT ANY DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE TO GET MUCH DONE _ SUCH AS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, unless the House and Senate are controlled by Democrats.  I'm well aware from talking to Canadians and reading Daily Mail UK about their "Socialist" health care that there are problems - that it probably will not guarantee excellent health care on demand for all.   Instead long waits and lots of criticism plus most people who go into medicine expect to make excellent money and we have a doctors shortage so nurse practitioners are doing a lot of the work. However, holding the idealism is important, and so is starting the negotiation.

I have to admit that Andrew Yang was also of interest to me.  I liked his idea of giving every American $1000 a month to spend the way they want to such as rent, student loans, business start up, paying back debt.  I didn't like that this money was to anyone who was not already getting $1000 a month from the government such as on Social Security, SSI, SSDI, as so many people are living in dire poverty on those programs.

Last Presidential election I felt that I was unsure who I wanted to vote for too close to voting so I took an online questionnaire and learned I was 3/4 for Bernie and 1/4 for Donald Trump. The crowd I run with at the moment, upon hearing Bloomberg was considering Hillary as his Vice President collectively sighed at that news.  We're all desperate for the end of the present chaos of the Presidency.

And I mean to send a Thank You to Mitt Romney.

C 2020 Christine Trzyna
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FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WAS NOT A SOCIALIST - WHY IS BERNIE SANDERS?

The news that Bernie Sanders, at 77, has decided to run for President of the United States, and that in a day he had $6 million in campaign funds donated - smaller donations - more voters - reached me this morning.  I was cheered by the news and read around the subject via various news services.  

Lots of Democrats are declaring themselves.  Marianne Williamson, a New Age preacher, declared her self some weeks ago in an eloquent YouTube video I watched.  There are so many candidates that televised debates might be limited to two nights and twenty.  (How the twenty would be determined, I do not know.)

A criticism I heard is that he is "too old,"  (though probably in better health that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was during his campaigns and four terms of Presidency and though probably in better health than John Fitzgerald Kennedy ever was, though much younger.)  The stigma of being a "cripple" /disabled was understood at the time and in both cases the press/media conspired to not show the President in a wheelchair or with a back brace and only in recent years have health revelations been made about JFK.  For those who suffer from pain and dealing with pain management or some other health issue that make them partially or fully disabled, knowing someone struggling also made it to the highest office is inspiring.  Who a Presidential candidate of age or ill health chooses to run as a Running Mate - Vice President is always a question.  One thinks "What if they die?  What if there is an assassination?"

Yet I know of a 98 year old who is still walking three miles a day and others who carry the age of 77 well, while several of my friends over the years have died - of AIDS, breast cancer, leukemia, brain tumor, brain stroke, and massive heart attack, so much younger.

I wish the term Socialist had never been applied to Bernie Sanders. Our only four term President, FDR, instituted so many governmental funded work programs and programs that many people have come to depend on ("The New Deal") including Social Security.  Though he apparently offended members of his wealthy class, I suspect polio gave him new associations and new understanding.  Socialist?  No way. 

Sanders seeks to expand some, invent others.  Let's think New Deal Continued.

Joe Biden would also make a good Democratic candidate, and main stream, not suffering the Socialist stigma, but I'm not sure I could imagine a Sanders-Biden or Biden-Sanders ticket.

I flash upon the last campaign when I was on a bus with passengers that represented the full diversity of Southern California.  When I stated I was for Bernie Sanders a Black woman jumped out of her seat and yelled, "You have to vote for Hillary Clinton!  You can't let the Republican's win."  Some people think the utter chaos of the current Presidency as a result of the election of President Donald Trump was caused by too many people running as Democrats or Sanders and Hillary Clinton splitting vote.  This looks to be right doing the math.  As much as I feel traumatized and confused by the current Presidency, I hope to hell Clinton stays out of this race. 

Ultimately, people must ask themselves WHY THEY ARE OK with so very many people enduring poverty and limitation.   People must ask themselves WHY SO MUCH SPIRITUAL SICKNESS in a so called country "Under God."  I can't make them.  But I hope this post will make YOU think!

Christine Trzyna

MILLER CENTER ORG on FDR  READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHERE WE ARE NOW.

From the site: Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, nicknamed “FDR,” guided America through its greatest domestic crisis, with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis. His presidency—which spanned twelve years—was unparalleled, not only in length but in scope. FDR took office with the country mired in a horrible and debilitating economic depression that not only sapped its material wealth and spiritual strength, but cast a pall over its future. Roosevelt's combination of confidence, optimism, and political savvy—all of which came together in the experimental economic and social programs of the "New Deal"—helped bring about the beginnings of a national recovery.